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[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

Was the Reddit version of this community like this with people coming in to 'both sides' the conversation? I don't think it was like this. Lemmy has a real problem with people just not caring about what the community is before they come in to drop their hot their hot takes. I've even seen people go into [email protected] to complain about people posting about Reddit. I mean, come on.

As for that 18% of violent crimes being committed by women stat, that still means 82% of the perpetrators were men, so that's hardly the pwn it was made out to be. It's grasping at straws to keep ignoring that there's any problem.

I'll also just leave this here:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

I think that the motivation behind it is very simple: no one gives a shit about what I go through, why should I give a shit what you go through?

I'm not saying it's right, but there is a twisted logic to it and there are certain societal factors at play that do make it seem true (like young boys being much more likely to be suspended or expelled from school).

Again, I'm not saying we should stop fighting for women's rights — rights for one are rights for all. I'm just saying, understanding instead of trivializing will be what leads all of us out of this mess.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I like to think of most interactions as gender-less on Lemmy. I don't want to assume who I'm talking to.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's just All Lives Matter again isn't it? They don't care, they just want you to stop talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lemmy has a real problem with people just not caring about what the community is before they come in to drop their hot their hot takes.

I believe that this is a symptom of lemmy's relatively small size. Individual communities aren't as active, so you have to cast a wider net if you want to see fresh content.

I know that I browse "all" here far more than I ever did on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Man here. It took me a lot of therapy and help to understand that my (or someone's) suffering doesn't mean less just because there are a lot of others who are suffering more.

I used to say crap like this too, if someone said 'X group of people have this problem'. I'd be like 'but Y has the same problem but to higher extent'. I didn't say it out of malice, at least I don't think so. lt was natural to think 'how can you be complaning about X when Y has the same problem but more'. Maybe I just believed that first you address the problem with bigger statistical number, then we do the smaller one after that and so on, but I dont know. I know now, that is a shitty way to think about things.

I guess it has something to do with how I was raised, 'your problems aren't that great, there are people with bigger problems and in comparison your life is a luxury. So chin up and carry on'. And I lived by it and parroted the same rhetoric for a long time. I believe most people (men?) do the same not out of malice but because of this shitty view of life and the world, because how they were raised, because how people told them how their problem can be ignored because someone else has a bigger problem. and they don't know any better. At least I didn't for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

How can you be so selfish as to go on such a rant when there are starving kids in Africa?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

How the fuck are so many random internet people buying blue checkmarks? Depressing as fuck that this blatant money grab/propaganda tool from a right wing asshole worked so well with no negative consequences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Consumerism.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Who would you prefer to meet in the woods? a hexbear or a human?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

It's been my experience that women protect me from men.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

State's rights energy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I’m getting a similar kind of aneurysm reading the “bUt NoT aLL mEn” comments here as I get when I browse conservative subreddits

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Remember the bear clusterfuck? Lemmy is pretty bad in this regard.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

naivety is an option

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nice. That's got to be one of the most simple and elegant comebacks I've seen in a long time. But also: Themselves? To paraphrase Tyson, "Everybody's got a plan until a woman knifehands them in the throat."

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